Nvidia, Google and OpenAI were among a handful of tech companies that met with White House officials Thursday morning to coordinate on President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the Department of Energy and various science agencies to adopt artificial intelligence.
The roundtable brought together representatives from 24 tech companies to meet with Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios, and DOE Undersecretary for Science Darío Gil, according to the White House and a person familiar with the meeting. Also in attendance were representatives from xAI, Anthropic and AMD, among others.
The event was the first official meeting on the order, dubbed the “Genesis Mission,” since it was signed last month. The order is meant to supercharge scientific research capabilities by embracing AI and sharing government data sets with universities and private industries.
— MOUs: The meeting concluded with the companies signing memorandums of understanding with the administration to advance the Genesis Mission, according to the White House. The full list includes Accenture, AMD, Anthropic, Armada, Amazon Web Services, Cerebras, CoreWeave, Dell, DrivenData, Google, Groq, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Oracle, Periodic Labs, Palantir, Project Prometheus, Radical AI, xAI and XPRIZE.
